Job Description
Job DescriptionDescription:
Position Overview
The Advanced Practice Provider will manage the ongoing medical needs of residents in skilled nursing and long-term care facilities in the Billings area.
You will have the opportunity to develop long-term relationships with residents and facility staff while managing both acute concerns and chronic medical conditions.
This position is ideal for a provider who:
- Enjoys working with older adults and medically complex patients
- Values flexibility and independence
- Communicates effectively with nursing staff, families, and physicians
- Is comfortable making clinical decisions while having collaborative support available
- Wants to make a meaningful difference in a smaller community
Key Responsibilities
Patient Care
- Perform comprehensive history and physical examinations
- Evaluate, diagnose, and manage acute and chronic conditions
- Develop individualized treatment and care plans
- Order and interpret laboratory testing, imaging, and other diagnostics
- Prescribe medications and therapies within scope of practice
- Provide post-hospital and transitional care follow-up
- Address cognitive, behavioral, functional, and medical changes
- Educate residents and families regarding diagnoses and treatment plans
Skilled Nursing and Long-Term Care
- Complete admission assessments and required documentation
- Conduct routine and medically necessary follow-up visits
- Participate in interdisciplinary care planning
- Collaborate with facility nursing, therapy, dietary, social services, and administrative teams
- Support initiatives that reduce avoidable emergency department visits and hospital readmissions
- Maintain accurate and timely EMR documentation
- Review and sign laboratory results promptly
- Follow applicable CMS, state, and facility requirements
Collaboration
- Work closely with an assigned collaborating physician
- Communicate effectively with facility staff, families, caregivers, and specialists
- Participate in multidisciplinary patient management
- Help create a consistent, responsive, and patient-centered clinical presence within the facility
Join Our Team
At Pacific Medical Specialty Group, you will be more than a visiting provider. You will become a trusted clinical partner to residents, families, nursing teams, and facility leadership.
Bring your clinical skills, compassion, and commitment to Billings and join a growing medical group that values its providers and the communities they serve.
Apply today to learn more about this flexible full-time opportunity.
Requirements:
Qualifications
Required
- Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant program
- Active and unrestricted Montana license, or ability to obtain one
- National board certification or board eligibility by the start date
- DEA registration and prescriptive authority, or ability to obtain them
- NPI number
- Eligibility to participate in Medicare and Medicaid
- Current BLS certification
- U.S. work authorization
Preferred
- Experience in skilled nursing, long-term care, geriatrics, internal medicine, family medicine, or post-acute care
- Experience managing medically complex patients and chronic conditions
- Familiarity with CMS documentation and regulatory requirements
Qualified new graduates are encouraged to apply.